Lisa Hickey
Lisa Hickey
Actor
Lisa’s credits include working with La Boite, Toadshow, Acronym, Fractal, Grin and Tonic, That Production Company, The Curators’ Theatre, Growl, Pip Theatre and Lost Child Ensemble. In film and TV: Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Backberner, Stingers, educational and corporate videos, several commercials and feature films Swimming For Gold and Audrey.
Biography
Lisa has worked extensively in Theatre in Brisbane, appearing in many La Boite productions including The Enemy Within, The Perfectionist, No Exit, The Threepenny Opera, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Plastik, Angry Housewives, The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Maids, Popular Front and War Women; in Toadshow’s Conway Christ and The Hound of Music; Acronym’s King Lear, The Visit and Teechers; Fractal’s Female Parts, The Yellow Wallpaper and The Untouchable Julie. After moving to Melbourne in the mid-90s, she appeared in an all-female production of Richard II for Conspiracy Theatre Company. Lisa has done a lot of film, TV and radio work including Blue Heelers, Neighbours, Backberner, Stingers, educational and corporate videos and ABC Radio Drama. After returning to Brisbane in 2015, she has appeared in That Production Company’s When the Rain Stops Falling, The Curators’ Uncle Vanya, Ghosts, The Revolutionists and Shadows of Love. She recently appeared in Grand Horizons for PIP Theatre and Children of the Black Skirt for Lost Child Ensemble and Polymorphic Production’s The History of the Devil at Metro Arts Theatre. She also performed in an Audible sci-fi podcast and appeared in the feature films Swimming For Gold and Audrey. Lisa has also done considerable voice-over work, several TV and internet commercials, simulated patient work in hospitals and countless radio promos. She also directed Plucked for the Anywhere Festival (which won The People’s Choice Award) and John Romeril’s Mrs Thally F, one of the short plays in Shadows of Love in 2022.
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Reviews
A huge accolade needs to be given to Lisa Hickey, who played the corpse of the late Mrs. McLeavey. Despite having no lines, her physical comedy was brilliantly comical.
Noah Cotgrove - Whats The Show | Read Review Here
Lisa Hickey played the deceased Mrs McLeavy, and while one could be forgiven for thinking that a role as a corpse with no lines presents no opportunity for the actor to make the character their own, Hickey proves otherwise. Much of the play’s physicality revolves around the disrespect shown to poor deceased Mrs McLeavy, comically well done for full impact by Hickey.
David Wilson - Absolute Theatre | Read Review Here
Special mention must go to Lisa Hickey who played the deceased Mrs McLeavy. It was the best performance of a corpse I have ever seen. Hickey was shuffled all over the stage, including being locked into a coffin, stuffed in the cupboard (luckily it was a stage cupboard; I was nervous there for a minute), and de-robed and wrapped up like a mummy. Her stillness was excellent and her characterisation utterly believable.
Sarah Skubala - Theatre Travels | Read Review Here
Lisa Hickey plays the corpse, Mrs McLeavey, and is variously turned upside down, stored in a cupboard, dressed and undressed and wrapped in a shroud. She is to be congratulated.
Suzannah Conway - ArtsHub | Read Review Here
“As the Black Skirt / Harold Horrocks, Lisa Hickey gave a riveting performance, with no dialogue attributed to the governess, her physical stage presence was in turn terrifying and captivating as she commanded the space and the ‘children’ using only the clapping of her hands, while the role of the Government Inspector, Horrocks, allowed Hickey’s comedic timing to come into play and gave her vocals a workout as this character and what they represented in the play was mocked with high buffoonery during an indulgent morning tea scene.”
Sandra Harman – Theatre Travels | Read full review here
“Hickey is excellent as the always silent, yet still incredibly stern headmistress implements control with an oversized pair of scissors that ominously jangle from tie around her waist in representation of the severed-ties trauma so integral to the story. On occasion, however, the skirt is used with quirk rather than just allowing it stand alone as an eerie symbol. She has a wonderful stage presence, emphasised by a variety of physical contortions in compensate for her lack of dialogue as The Black Skirt, and, as orphanage inspector Harold Horrocks, she enlivens an over-the-top comic satire scene without toeing too far into Sir Les Patterson territory.”
Meredith Walker – The Blurb | Read full review here
Lisa Hickey brought significant variety to the role of Helene Alving, by turns flirtatious, coy, maniacal, possessive, and tormented. Patrick Shearer was riveting as Oswald, languidly unpredictable but increasingly unkempt, frightening, and violent as his ideas of the past unravelled around him. The scenes between Hickey’s overbearing Helene and Shearer’s spoiled, unhinging Oswald were standout – the intensity and fury in their interactions made it almost difficult to watch.
Elise Lawrence – Backstreet Brisbane | Read full review here
“Hickey was a standout performer with wonderfully exaggerated yet nuanced facial expressions and physicality. She drew the audience in and delivered a compelling performance.”
Priya Shah - Theatre Haus | Read full review here
Awards
Other Plays
Training
1991 – 1993 Drama Major, Arts Degree, University of Queensland
2000s Numerous courses, Drama Victoria.
1980s Theatre Sports, La Boite.
1980s Non-course singing lessons. Conservatorium of Music.
Representation
Ego Management